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COACHING

• An interactive process to promote a care Provider’s ability to support a child’s Participation in everyday experiences & Interactions across settings.

• Rush & Shelden, 2011

Instructional Coaching [Knight 2004] Job Coaching [Va. Board for people with disabilities, 2007] Primary Coaching [Rush & Shelden, 2011] Life Coaching [ www.lifecoaching.com ] Executive Coaching Peer Coaching [Douglas & McCauley, 1999]

Common principles of coaching (Dunn, 2010)

Reciprocal communication relationship The ‘coachee’ identifies the issues The focus is on solving the problem Solutions grow out of the ‘coachee’s’ insights Solutions are situated within authentic settings and activities

Reflective Questioning:

Occupational Performance Coaching (Graham, Rodger & Ziviani, 2009; 2010) Parents’ perceptions about their own and their children’s capacity improve significantly after

OP Coaching The process of identifying the problem and the desired outcome is the most active

ingredient

Coaching Interventions and Sensory Processing @ Winnie Dunn 2011

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Dunn, Cox, Foster, Mische-Lawson & Tanquary (2013)

• Effectiveness of an integrated intervention on children’s participation and parental competence

Recruit# Test1* WAIT 4wks

baseline

Test2* INTERVENTION

10 visits

Test3* WAIT 4wks

sustainability

Test4*

Take Home Messages from the study 1. Families are their own strongest resource for managing their lives. 2. Intervention focused solely on supporting families to achieve their prioritized goals leads to

significant improvements in children’s participation. 3. Using reflective discussion with parents to find strategies to achieve their goals leads to

parents experiencing less distress & more efficacy as parents. 4. Linking sensory patterns to activities and settings provided a structure for problem solving. 5. Families of children with ASD need additional support beyond what they get at school.